IN BRIEF

ENID (TNS) — An Enid woman accused of throwing her newborn baby in a dumpster was charged Thursday with second-degree murder.

The Garfield County district attorney amended the charges Thursday against Kathryn Green, 26, to include second-degree murder and unauthorized disposal of a corpse.

She had been previously charged with child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and obstructing an officer.

According to a court affidavit, two men who agreed to clean up a woman’s property in exchange for a place to stay grew suspicious when they were told to stay away from a trunk.

Around 2:30 a.m. on April 9, police received a phone call from John Brauner and Andrew Cline who reported that “things were strange” and they thought a “baby had been thrown in a dumpster,” according to the affidavit.

When detectives arrived at the residence in the 1600 block of S 2, they found an infant’s body.

DNA testing later confirmed that the newborn’s mother was Green, who had warned the men to avoid the trunk.

On Monday, the state medical examiner determined that the infant died from methamphetamine toxicity and that death was a homicide.

— The Oklahoman

IT’S OFFICIAL

Muskogee County

launches website

MUSKOGEE (TNS) — Muskogee County commissioners launched the county’s official website this week, providing constituents with a variety of information pertinent to their lives with just a stroke or two on a computer keyboard.

“There’s a lot of good information there,” District 3 Commissioner Kenny Payne said.

District 1 Muskogee County Commissioner Ken Doke said even more information will be added as time goes by.

“It is a work in progress from here on out,” Doke said, noting the site has been in the planning and development stage for about two years. “One of the things we first set out to do is advance transparency in our county government — this not only adds our agendas and minutes, but now all of our expenditures and transactions are on there, too.”

Commissioners plan to upload the minutes of all commission meetings and the agendas for those meetings dating back to Jan. 1, Doke said. Meeting agendas initially were posted back to July 1, but they will be added to the site in coming days to make them available back to January.